thoughts on how to manage data with 256gb

Love to hear some thoughts on this as well.

 

External hard drive?

 

External HDD, AirDrop or a paid Dropbox account.

 

Time capsule. I have 6TB worth of combined drives on my windows desktop so I don't blame you needing to manage some stuff.

 

I have the 256. I keep minimal amounts of data on it in the long term. I use sugarsync to easily manage about 6-8gb of data that i want to have on my air and my mini, its most of the important stuff that I want to have double or triple backed up.

Easiest and likely fastest would be an external hard drive. Though with the air you're restricted to USB2.0 (or thunderbolt if your iMac has it too.)

You could also get a NAS drive and hook it to your router over ethernet that will create a network shared drive automatically and store your data there.

If you want to keep certain files in sync between the two, you could look at SugarSync or Dropbox. I like SugarSync personally.

Outside of either of those three options, you could setup a network share on your iMac and connect to it w/ your Air and drag and drop the files from one to the other over the network via finder copy....or if you want to be a more technical about it you can enable secure login on your iMac which enables by default SFTP and you can use an FTP client such as Transmit to move your data back and forth over your network.

 

G-Drive Slim (500 GB).

Light, small, reasonably priced.

 

Just go in sharing preference and share your imac account. Then you'll be able to use your MBA to access your files on your imac when using your username and password... copy-paste ... ok over the air will take a day and night, but didn't cost a dime....

 

Dropbox...

 

External Firewire 800 drive.

Edit: nevermind. Thunderbolt drive?

 

For iTunes, I use iTunes Match. My media is taking 0GB on my SSD - of course, I can only play music while connected to a network, but I'm rarely outside of WiFi anyway - YMMV.

I have also used a NAS to connect to my media at home or remotely, but I find Match to be less of a hassle.

 

I have a 2TB NAS

Synology 212J accessiable over the internet should I be on the move. Perfect!

 

Thanks! That answers one of my questions. I was not sure if this would be accessible outside of my home wifi. Hoping that it is not difficult to set up or expensive.

Thanks again!

 

Photography is a hobby of mine. Although iPhoto could handle most of the things I wanted to do, I upgraded to Aperture.

The biggest reason is Aperture gives you away to manage multiple libraries with ease. I keep the last few months of photos on my MBP and the main library on my iMac.

 

There are many solutions here are 3 from simpist to most complex

1) Local external hard drive. Just plug in a external drive when you need it. BAM. Instant 500 gig to 2 TB. Just a bit of a pain to always have to plug the drive in.

2) Shared Drive on Another computer. Just share folder on your iMac (or similar) or plug that external drive into the iMac and share it. Nice solution while in your house.... One problem is you must have another computer and it must always be on (for the most part...)

3) NAS Solution. Network-Attached-Storage. Basically the same as the above but the computer part is built into the storage. This removes the need for another computer. NAS solutions can be more $$$ than just adding disk to the solution #2

Hope that helps.

 

if you didn't want anything sticking out you COULD go with an SD card, not ideal tho.

 

owning an mba 11" with 256gb ssd myself, i am struggling with valued hard disk space myself!

today i took the plunge and ordered one of the new announced "Elgato Thunderbolt SSD 120 GB" drives.

i know, those are very expensive but if you ever get used to the speed and convenience of ssd's you could never look back!

at home i am backing up and storing additional data on 4TB WD drive attached to an Airport Extreme.

the external ssd will solely be used for photo shoots and editing purposes, will let you know how this will work out if the drive get mailed in ...

 

I keep all non critical data off my MBA's 256GB SSD...I transfer new project material to my iMac, and obviously to my backup drives as soon as I return from location. I don't want to add external storage if I can avoid it, as it reduces the "portability" of the Air.

Good file management practice means it should be possible to cope with the smaller storage volume, but then, I go way back in the day when 20MB (yep 20 MB) was a standard hdd size!